the Département Vaucluse acquired an old factory close to the town centre for the museum. The route around the museum traces the processes –making card, folding boxes, typography and lithography. There [...] printing. The industry produced attractive printed boxes for diverse products all over France. This museum traces the methods of making and printing cardboard boxes from the mid-nineteenth century to the

only affordable entry point to mechanised transport for most working-class people. The PS.Speicer museum at Einbeck, a small town in Lower Saxony, on the River Leine between Göttingen and Hanover, holds [...] collection also includes some historic motor cars whose relationship to motor cycles is one of the museum’s principal themes. The collection is displayed in a seven-storey, five-bay former granary, built

The historical museum tells the story of Bielefeld from its foundation by Count Hermannn of Ravensberg in 1214 to the present. It is located in the former Ravensberger spinning mill and its main focus [...] engineering and other industries followed. The Ravensberger mill closed in 1974 and the Historical Museum opened on the premises in 1994.

they have been lovingly restored for presentation to the general public. The idea of setting up a museum of public transport in Liège became reality in 1985. The idea didn´t come out of the blue. For as [...] bike, and were thus dependent on trams and, later, motor buses. Nowadays visitors to the Transport Museum can indulge in bouts of nostalgia, when they see the old vehicles which were built between 1875 and

cultivation and processing of silk has always been of importance in the Caucasus region. The silk museum in Tbilisi is part of the Caucasian Sericulturure Station, established in 1887 by Nikolay Shavrov [...] studies to determine the best mulberry seeds for Georgian silk producers. By 1930 it incorporated the museum, a library and was called the Transcaucasian Institute of Sericulture and Silk Production. Its future [...] department in 1988, saved from closure, and re-gained its independence in 2006. The objective of the museum is to promote understanding and appreciation of silk, its production and use through exhibitions

cloth,. But this is not all. The museum also leads guests through the history of fashion. An audio system in four languages offers visitors the opportunity to tour the museum independently. The show continues

underground cinema, or drinking a "Grottenbier" in an underground café? Then the Valkenburg Colliery Museum is just the place for you. Here visitors can experience their own underground world. The ground below [...] in the industrial history of South Limburg. As early as 1917 the first and only underground mining museum in the Netherlands was set up in the Valkenburg colliery, in order to give visitors an idea of the [...] also take a trip back in time to the long forgotten geological periods in the underground fossil museum with exhibits dating back to the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. These include a real jaw-dropper;

it be a success? Yes, the young visitors have just cast a brass coin with the help of one of the museum workers, and after it has been polished, it will shine like gold. Brass and zinc dominate a large [...] produced here. Instead the history of zinc and its "golden brother" brass are vividly presented in the museum on the site. Above all, the commonplace metal zinc can be seen in a whole range of uses, for example [...] made the town well-known around the world: the needle and haberdashery industry. The Zinkhütter Hof Museum looks back from today´s modern production methods to the old days of inadequate working conditions

are entering Sprimont there is another smaller sign pointing the way to the Museum of Stone. The road leading to the museum opens out onto a large square covered in hewed stones, cranes and old machines [...] glass-fronted buildings rise into the sky in the background. Is this a museum or do people still work here? It is the Sprimont Museum of Stone, housed in the former central power station of the quarry, which [...] building industry; but sculptors also like working on it, as can be seen from the many artworks in the museum´s courtyard and the old power station. The central electric power station is a fine example of industrial

and less important. The ZLMS took the initiative to reactivate some of the stretches of rail as a museum line. As a result steam engines now run to and fro on the 16 kilometre long stretch of line between [...] gifts. You can also find out more about the history of the South Limburg Railway in the society´s museum. Outside on the station site there are quite a few historical treasures, like the turntable pit,

1916, and the latter still carries some wood pulp and chemicals. There are three museums in the area. The canal museum in a warehouse of 1893 by the upper locks illustrates the history of the waterway [...] 1937, and a large collection of the company’s products is displayed in its museum. The interactive science centre and museum called Innovatum is located nearby in the former engineering shops of the Nohab

fire or a lamp. The match museum is located at the Tändsticksområdet, which is the handsome wooden building of the first match factory of Jönköping, built in 1848. The museum tells the stories of the people

although there is more emphasis on construction equipment in the Munktell museum at Eskiltuna. Special features of the Göteborg museum include the desk shared by the founding partners, a children’s play car [...] Volvo are displayed in galleries which are chronologically themed. The museum shop specialised in models of Volvo vehicles. The museum can be visited during three-hour boat trips around harbour which also

waste tips colonised by vegetation. The whole landscape is now under legislative protection. The museum at Cadaviu in the parish of Ciaño in the municipality of Langreo opened to the public in 2013 after [...] industrial heritage are combined with projects for economic revitalisation. The reception area of the museum is at El Cadaviu station where there are displays of tools and mining equipment, historic photographs

The Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (German Museum of the Masterpieces of Natural Science and Technology) holds one of the world’s most important collections of artefacts [...] comparable with those of the Science Museum, London, the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in Paris and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. The museum was founded in 1903 at a meeting of the [...] stations to customers. The museum was severely damaged by bombing during the Second World War and was re-opened in stages, beginning with the library, from November 1945. The museum’s aeronautical exhibits

porcelain factory Margarethenhütte produced insulators for the electrical industry until 1991. The museum is located in the oldest part of the factory, dating from 1885. Bricks and pottery were made at

’ because of the sudden growth of industry there in the nineteenth century. IMI, the Interactive Museum of Industry, tells the story of its wide range of trades – leather production, weaving, pottery, [...] the era of socialism in Bulgaria and finally the period since 1989. The interactive parts of the museum let visitors ‘blow up’ a wall with dynamite, take part in films and choose stories to listen to about

derelict for three decades during which there were proposals that never materialised to use it as a museum of technology. Nevertheless the building, which is in the Art Deco style, was restored, and in 1997 [...] the Gods’ which displayed some statues of the classical era from the Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museum) which was then under restoration. It was subsequently decided to create a permanent display in the

beer in bottles in the 1920s and by the 1970s it produced near a million bottles a year. The brewery museum – which they call the ‘Gösseum’ – is entered through a modern glass extension. It explains the tradition

In 1920 the Bayerisches Landestorfwerke GmbH (Bavarian Peat Company) established a processing plant at Grassau on the edge of what is now the Kendlemühlfilzen nature reserve, near the Chiemsee and the